25 November 2024
Changing perspectives: Putting Participatory Video into practice in Rwanda
Originally published on the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT. Participatory video is a technique that puts cameras in the hands of farmers. Researchers Melissa Bonilla, Maria Delfine, Charles Mwizerwa, Rhys Manners and Anna Muller share how this approach can provide insights for more inclusive agriculture. By: Melissa Bonilla, Maria Delfine, Charles Mwizerwa, Rhys Manners […]
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13 November 2024
IITA and NRCRI execute maiden monitoring and inspection of tricot on-farm cassava trials with the National Variety Release Committee in Nigeria
Originally published on IITA. We have prepared a two-part blog explaining the “tricot” method and detailing the approach for on-farm testing for variety release (Part 1) and featuring the monitoring and inspection part with partners (Part 2). Part 2 details the initial monitoring and inspection of tricot trials in collaboration with the National Varieties Release […]
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06 November 2024
Joint cassava IITA-NRCRI breeding team use the tricot approach for on-farm testing for variety release
Originally published on IITA. We have prepared a two-part blog explaining the “tricot” method and detailing the approach for on-farm testing for variety release (Part 1) and featuring the monitoring and inspection part with partners (Part 2). Part 1 introduces the tricot approach for on-farm testing for cassava varieties. The cassava breeding stage gate process […]
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08 May 2024
Call for proposals: 1000FARMS catalytic small projects 2024
The call for catalytic small projects supports learning about tricot & implementation of the approach in a low-risk way. Find out more and apply.
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10 July 2023
Call for proposals: 1000FARMS catalytic small projects 2023
1000FARMS has funding available to support 5–6 catalytic projects in 2023 for up to a maximum of USD 20,000. Find out more and how to apply.
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10 July 2023
Climate variability indices for ecological and crop models in R: the climatrends package
The package climatrends aims to provide the methods in R to compute precipitation and temperature indices that serve as input for climate and crop models, trends in climate change and applied ecology.
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26 June 2023
Establishing the linkage between eba’s instrumental and sensory descriptive profiles and their correlation with consumer preferences: implications for cassava breeding
This study aimed to define the critical quality traits of gari and eba, measure their heritability, define medium and high throughput instrumental methods for use by breeders, and link the traits with consumer preferences.
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12 June 2023
Data-driven approaches can harness crop diversity to address heterogeneous needs for breeding products
This perspective describes the opportunities and challenges of data-driven approaches for crop diversity management (genebanks and breeding) in the context of agricultural research for sustainable development in the Global South.
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30 May 2023
gosset: An R package for analysis and synthesis of ranking data in agricultural experimentation
To derive insights from data, researchers working on agricultural experiments need appropriate data management and analysis tools. To ensure that workflows are reproducible and can be applied on a routine basis, programmatic tools are needed. Such tools are increasingly necessary for rank-based data, a type of data that is generated in on-farm experimentation and data […]
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31 March 2023
1000FARMS Platform Annual Meeting Report 2023
The 1000FARMS Platform Annual Meeting Report 2023 provides insights from the meeting that will be used to plan the next years’ activities.
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